misdoer
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In the case of demerit there is a direct antipathy to the feelings of the misdoer, but the chief sentiment excited is sympathy with those injured by the misdeed.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various
Justice in her demanded that every wrong should be righted, every misdoer punished.
From The Tangled Skein by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
Would that every misdoer among the provincial governors had thus been followed up by the law!
From The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic by Arthur Gilman
And though Sister Hawthorn satisfied the Church by “humble acknowledgment of her miscariag,” the bolder misdoer only made matters worse by “a frothy letter,” which left no alternative but a sentence of expulsion.
From The Life of John Bunyan by Edmund Venables
Saint Edmund from the horizon's edge, in shining armour, threatening the misdoer in his hour of extreme need: it is beautiful, it is great and true.
From Past and Present by Thomas Carlyle
